The TSA was a Tolkien club, the first in the US, which was founded by highschool student Dick Plotz and others in February, 1965. Like the Tolkien Society in the UK, the TSA had local groups also called smials. Memberships soon topped 2000 and Plotz, who had started college at Harvard! His grades suffered as he tried to continue running the TSA and on Labor Day 1967, Ed Meskys took over running the organization.

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